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Invensys Process Systems hosted a
record number of customers at the company’s 2007 Asia Pacific Users Group Conference, which was held at the JW Marriott Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Approximately 250 users of various Invensys brand products – including Foxboro process control systems, Triconex safety and critical control systems, SimSci-Esscor simulation software, and Avantis enterprise asset management software– attended the four-day event.Invensys customers came from across
the Asia Pacific region, including nearby Asean countries such as Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, as well as from Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Some of the larger customer organizations represented at the conference included Brunei Shell, Petronas Carigali, Reliance Industries, China Light Power, PT Indonesia Power, PTT Chem, PetroVietnam, Sinopec, and the Chiyoda Corporation.The keynote speakers, Wan Hassan Wan Mamat from Petronas Carigali (Malaysia)
and Shirasaki Yoshihiro from Chiyoda Corporation (Japan), presented industry technological and business trends. Yagnesh Buch from Reliance Industries (India) also presented the progress of the Reliance Jamnagar Export Refinery Project, for which Invensys was selected as process automation and control system supplier.Exchanging ideas
In addition to technical sessions where participants from across the region had
the opportunity to exchange ideas and network with other colleagues to learn best practices, Invensys industry and application experts provided many different sessions covering timely subjects such as trends in automation, wireless technology, manufacturing execution systems, and enterprise control systems.User Group Conference participants also had the opportunity to see live
demonstrations of the latest Invensys technology in a large Showcase area. These included demonstrations of Invensys Performance Services (Wireless, Cyber Security, Alarm Management, Loop Management, Energy Management, etc.) plus the new InFusion enterprise control system, which is designed to help solve many kinds of business problems by providing a cost-effective solution for integrating all plant and enterprise systems (DCS, PLC, SIS, MES, CMMS, EAM, ERP, etc.) into a common application environment.
